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Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 6.5 to -1.5.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct leads the overall LLM Stats Score 6.5 to -1.5, ranking #295 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude 3 Haiku

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.25/M input and $1.25/M output

Choose Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

  • overall performance matters — it scores 6.5 and ranks #295 on LLM Stats
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jan 2025
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3 Haiku
Anthropic
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
-1.5
#338
6.5
#295
Reasoning
-1.5
#331
3.0
#305
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$0.25 / M
— / M
Output price
$1.25 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude 3 Haiku
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Math
4.3#283
3.2#288
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

10 reported for Claude 3 Haiku · 32 for Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3 Haiku specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3 Haiku specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3 Haiku
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Tue Sep 22 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude 3 Haiku

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Haiku was released on 2024-03-13, while Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct was released on 2025-01-26.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct is 11 months newer than Claude 3 Haiku.

Claude 3 Haiku

Mar 13, 2024

2.5 years ago

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Jan 26, 2025

1.7 years ago

10mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3 Haiku
✓ Preferred
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 6.5 to -1.5. Claude 3 Haiku is made by Anthropic and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude 3 Haiku compare to Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3 Haiku scores ARC-C: 89.2%, GSM8k: 88.9%, HellaSwag: 85.9%, DROP: 78.4%, HumanEval: 75.9%. Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct scores DocVQA: 95.7%, Android Control Low_EM: 91.4%, MobileMiniWob++_SR: 91.4%, ChartQA: 87.3%, OCRBench: 86.4%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct?

Claude 3 Haiku supports 200K tokens and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (-1.5 vs 6.5), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct?

Claude 3 Haiku is developed by Anthropic and Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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